The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-02-11
The Ownership of Land.

common. They didn't SOW much, and
they didn't reap much. They lived
on game, fish and CLAIMS. but there
wasn't enough to go round, and then
one said to the others. Il have as
good right as you to what there is"
and he tried to grab it. The other
Indians killed him. That is the way
we all began. The white men who
were our grandfathers, lived in the
same way in Europe, but that way
didn'r work we'll, and the white men
gave it up before the Indians, who
haven't given it up yet.
What did they do next? They saw
that all their food came out of the
land, aud that if they didn't fence in
the land somewhere and plant it there
would not be enough to go round.
Game was getting scarce A tribe or
II family fenced in a piece aud said to
the rest, "This is ours" Nobody oh
jected justtheu, because there was more
land that folks. After the tribe had
taken the land, a part of them planted
it and the rest kept up the fences !;
that is to say, they stayed around the
outside and kept the tramps off. Next
year the tribe that had fenced in set
apart some of the land, and plenty OF
food. aud then they had a lot of time
to spare, SO they went to work making
better cloths and building better
houses; the next year they were a
great deal stronger, because they had
been better fed and better clothed and
better housed. The more they fenced
in and used the land, the more food
there wos for themselves and others.
The tranips outside had great
deal moreland they also had all the
game there Was and all the time there
was, but they said those fellows inside
the fence have taken our land, but we
have worked just as hard outside as
they have, they ought to share even;
we have just MS much rights to some
of their crops, and if they don't give
them to us, let's go and take them
let's all share even. That is just what
the tramps say now. but they don't
get it, because the men inside the
fence have the most sense and the
most muscle, the best tools and the
best guns, aud they know how to use
them.
The tramps were licked and then
they began to grumble, as they do now.
They said to the men inside the fence,
''you have no right to that land, We
want some of it," The men inside
said, "there is land enough outside;
why don's you fencein some out there?"
The tramps said, I'VE want to stay
here" Then said the men inside the
fence, "stay if you want to and swap
with us--there will be enough for all
of us if we swap. We viii work the
land that is good for nothing unless it
is worked, but we cannot all work on
this land; let's swap work on land for
some other kind of work." But
where shall stay said the tramp;
1--WE cannot all live in the woods" eNo,"
said the man inside the fence, Eve
have more food that we can eat, more
timber thatwe can use, more iron Chan
we want; yon can come in and work
up these things, and we viii let you
have part We will swap grain and
meat and timber and iron, which we
have saved from our own work and
cannot use ourselves, for your work"
The tramps agreed. Where was the
thiess? Both had more than they had
before. Which one gained the most?
The administration is considerably
worked up just now over the resigna-